Garment-weight.



A. MORLEY.

GARMENT WEIGHT.

APPLIUATION FILED APRA, 1914.

1,1 1 0,075, Patented Sept. 8, 1914 1HE MORRIS PETERS CO.. FHOTO-LITHD.. WASHINGIUN. D. O.

I"UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEErcE. y

ALBERT MORLEY, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGN OR TO THE WARREN FEATHERBONE COMPANY, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION 0F MICHIGAN.

GAnMENT-WEIGHT.

Patented sept. s, 1914.

Application filed April 4, 1914. Serial No. 829,462.

To all whom/.it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT MORLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Three Oaks, county of Berrien, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Weights, of which the following is a specification.

It is customary in many garments t0 weight the lower edge thereof in order to insure proper hanging and many forms of garment weights have been devised for such purpose. The most common form of garment weight probably consists of a strip of tape to which a plurality of lead weights are secured to the tape at intervals. In garment weights of this general type, however, the weights are constantly breaking from the tape due to the fact that they are only secured to the tape by threads or other insecure means and as the lower edge of the garment wears out, the weights will fall through, producing an uneven hang to the garment.

The principal object of my invention, therefore, is to construct a .garment weight l with a reinforced edge to prevent the breaking of the weight through a fold of the garment and in my preferred construction the reinforced edge is formed by a cord disposed beneath the weights and which keeps the weights out of contact with the fold in the garment.

A further novelty in my invention resides in forming this cord of a resilient material whereby the cord will not only perform the functions hereinbefore stated but will also serve to hold the garment in a slightl distended position at the bottom as is desirable in the fashions of today.

In the accompanying drawing the figure is a plan view of a short length of myimproved weighted tape with a part broken away.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing my improved garment weight consists, as a whole, of a single piece of tape 2 having a plurality of lead weights 3 secured thereto at intervals. The tape 2 and the weights thereon are preferably inclosed in a strip of fabric 4' which is doubled upon' .itself to form a pocket. Interposed between the lead weights and the fold of the fabric 4 isthe cord 5. This cord may be the ordinary form of lexible'cord but it is preferablycomposed of a material having a certain degree ofresiliency such as a material known in the trade by the name of featherwhereupon a fold is made upon the bottomof a garment, such as a skirt, and the garment weight placed within said fold with the cord 5 below the weights so that wear at the bottom of the garment will come upon the cord 5 and not upon the fabric 4. Furthermore, the fabric in the garment will not be disintegrated so readily with the cord interposed between the lead weights and the garment.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

A garment weight comprising a single piece of material having a plurality of weights secured thereto, a cover inclosing not be disintegrated so readily with the cord interposed between said weights and said covering and disposed at the lower edge of said cover.

ALBERT MORLEY.

Witnesses:

BERT Gr. BEIsTLE, FRANK N. DONNER.

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